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There has to be SOME kind of set of rules. If just anything can happen then it takes away from it
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Not necessarily -
With Lucio Fulci's films in particular, he asks the viewer to make a leap of faith in trusting his stories not to be incoherent or nonsensical - you can tell they are crafted with such love that you will put logic aside for 90 minutes and just go along for the ride.
From personal experience, this does not come easy - renting some of his (albeit BBFC censored) movies as a teenager I didn't like them at all; something to do with shoddy acting/dubbing and random plotting didn't make me feel very clever when watching them.
However, as time goes by and the more skillfully acted, tightly plotted, downright boring commercial movies have come and gone from my viewing schedule, going back to the likes of
The Beyond and
City of the Living Dead brings back the childlike appreciation of horror that makes Fulci's movies so special.
Fulci's stories do play by rules - his own. Just accepting the frequent lapses in logic are not down to laziness but rather over enthusiasm is a good start - but I think too many viewers treat "daft" scenes as insulting to their intelligence and to this end Lucio is never going to be a favourite.